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Reading Pop Classics26. My Brilliant FriendWe read what The NY Times called "the best book of the 21st century." Turns out we agree. 2025-07-032h 28
Reading Pop ClassicsTBR Minisode #1Enjoy our To Be Read minisode as we get our lives together as best we can leading up to our next main episode covering Elena Ferrante's beloved masterpiece, My Brilliant Friend. To Be Read minisodes cover non-podcast books we've recently read, books we're currently reading, and general news and updates. 2025-06-1815 min
Reading Pop Classics25. Waiting to ExhaleKennedy and Rebecca go back to the early 90s with Waiting to Exhale.2025-05-142h 11
Reading Pop Classics24. JamesWe read James by Percival Everett.2025-04-181h 52
Reading Pop Classics23. Demon Copperhead, Part 2Rebecca and Kennedy cover the second half of Demon Copperhead. 2025-03-282h 15
Reading Pop Classics22. Demon Copperhead, Part 1Part one of Demon Copperhead. We cover chapters 1 - 34 in this episode. 2025-03-072h 32
Reading Pop Classics21. Harlem ShuffleWe discuss Colson Whitehead's crime novel, Harlem Shuffle.2025-02-062h 01
Reading Pop Classics20. Where the Crawdads SingKennedy and Rebecca read and discuss one of the best-selling books of all time.2025-01-142h 46
Reading Pop Classics19. The NightingaleRebecca and Kennedy go over the Pyrenees with the Nightingale. 2024-12-181h 47
Reading Pop Classics18. My Year of Rest and RelaxationWe solve the 9/11 ending of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation.2024-11-201h 25
Better Than Meatballs08. CruisingHere we go, a William Friedkin flick starring Al Pacino, a serial killer investigative drama set against the back drop of New York's 1970's gay leather scene. This has gravitas. This has substance, grit, poignancy. This one's going to hold up. Has to. 2024-11-061h 06
Better Than Meatballs07. UHFWeird Al, Fran Drescher, Michael Richards, Victoria Jackson, the guy who played Ritchie Aprile in The Sopranos...this movie has everybody, and we mean EVERYBODY who would one day go on to be in successful television programs. Except Weird Al. He stayed in music. How come he's never hosted SNL? Someone should get on that.2024-10-111h 04
Reading Pop Classics17. Fight ClubLoved, despised, and maligned, we discuss Fight Club, the book (and movie) that everyone is convinced everyone else misunderstands. Also, Kennedy had a cold while we recorded this and you can hear it. Sorry.2024-10-091h 34
Reading Pop Classics16. The Secret HistoryIs the history really secret if you tell Richard Papen about it? Rebecca and Kennedy tackle the Donna Tartt's beloved first novel, The Secret History. 2024-09-242h 02
Better Than Meatballs06. Tango and CashHell yeah. Stallone and K-Russ? Guaranteed to be a well-plotted philosophical exploration of the way the essence of a man's personality and character comes through in his work and both limit and enhance that work's effectiveness, in this case, the sacred duty of serving the American citizenry through the judicious enforcement of its laws. That's definitely how this one's gonna play. 2024-09-161h 18
Better Than Meatballs05. No Holds BarredThe Hulkster! He brought pathos and drama to the ring along with the uncanny ability to portray a character we could all call "brother." Obviously this movie is going to stand the test of time, just like Hogan himself. 2024-09-031h 03
Reading Pop Classics15. Play It As It LaysWe cover Joan Didion's classic, Play It As It Lays.2024-08-281h 28
Better Than Meatballs04. The Running ManSchwarzenegger. Hell yeah.2024-08-271h 12
Better Than Meatballs03. Hard to KillThis one's gotta still be good. Segal was huge back in the day. Everyone loved these. And he's such a normal person. This one's gonna rip.2024-08-191h 09
Better Than Meatballs02. Summer SchoolThat guy from NCIS: SUV: Miami was in a movie? With the lady from Cheers? No, not her, the second one, she replaced the first lady...yeah, her. That's definitely still good. How could it not be, there's a dog on the poster in sunglasses.2024-08-141h 17
Better Than Meatballs01. The Adventures of Ford FairlaneAndrew Dice Clay stars as private detective Ford Fairlane in a movie that's absolutely certain to be as good as it was when we snuck out of bed to watch it on HBO as kids. 2024-08-131h 04
Reading Pop Classics14. Less Than ZeroRebecca and Kennedy get mopey and nihilistic with a book about grim, emotionless reality of being....rich? Saddle up for Bret Easton Ellis's debut classic, Less Than Zero.2024-08-131h 25
Reading Pop Classics13. Bridget Jones's DiaryKennedy and Rebecca discuss Helen Fielding's hilarious and beloved Bridget Jones's Diary. V.G.2024-08-051h 45
Reading Pop Classics12. AmericanahRebecca and Kennedy re-read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 classic, Americanah. From Nigeria to America and England and back to Nigeria, our hosts discuss the journey from home to home. 2024-07-151h 49
Reading Pop Classics11. The SelloutThis time, Kennedy and Rebecca are talking about Paul Beatty's 2017, Man Booker Prize winning novel, The Sellout. 2024-06-061h 17
Reading Pop Classics10. Conversations with FriendsIn this episode, Rebecca and Kennedy have a conversation about Conversation with Friends....the episode is better than this play on words suggests. 2024-05-181h 31
Reading Pop Classics09. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyActivate your electronic thumb, pack a thermos of Pan-galactic Gargle Blasters, and obviously don't forget your towel. We're discussing the comedy classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 2024-04-241h 28
Reading Pop Classics08. Little Fires EverywhereRebecca and Kennedy get out the fire extinguishers for Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere.2024-03-281h 12
The Todd Herman ShowWhen it’s illegal to report crimes Ep-1493One of the things we discuss is the continuing laughing stock of election integrity in our country. You either have laws or you don’t. You either enforce those laws equally or you don’t. Many of us believe that the election in 2020 was stolen and rigged. In Michigan, lawyers have been arrested for taking proof of election tampering to a sheriff. They are being criminally prosecuted for reporting crimes. And, in Chicago, 10,000 mail-in ballots have been “found” in the race for state attorney. But, it’s just not just votes that are being stolen. How fallen is society? A seventy-se...2024-03-2751 minThe Todd Herman ShowWhen it’s illegal to report crimes Ep-1493One of the things we discuss is the continuing laughing stock of election integrity in our country. You either have laws or you don’t. You either enforce those laws equally or you don’t. Many of us believe that the election in 2020 was stolen and rigged. In Michigan, lawyers have been arrested for taking proof of election tampering to a sheriff. They are being criminally prosecuted for reporting crimes. And, in Chicago, 10,000 mail-in ballots have been “found” in the race for state attorney. But, it’s just not just votes that are being stolen. How fallen is society? A seventy-se...2024-03-2751 min
Reading Pop Classics07. Parable of the SowerIn this episode Rebecca and Kennedy discuss Octavia E. Butler's speculative fiction novel The Parable of the Sower, set in a chaotic, bleak, and dangerous future in the year....2024? Ah nerts. That's not good.2024-03-121h 35
Reading Pop Classics06. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineKennedy and Rebecca read Gail Honeyman's international bestseller and discover that Eleanor Oliphant is absolutely not fine. She's definitively not okay.2024-02-231h 56
Reading Pop Classics05. Salvage the BonesKennedy and Rebecca fawn over Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award winner, Salvage the Bones in this episode. 2024-02-131h 42
Reading Pop Classics04. The OutsidersWe read S.E. Hinton's classic, The Outsiders, considered to be the original YA novel.2024-01-291h 14
Reading Pop Classics03. Valley of the DollsKennedy and Rebecca read Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, one of the best selling books of all time with over 30 million copies sold (according to Wikipedia, anyway). 2024-01-201h 37
Reading Pop Classics02. Slaughterhouse FiveKennedy and Rebecca follow Billy Pilgrim as he comes unstuck in time in Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war classic Slaughterhouse Five. 2024-01-1859 min
Reading Pop Classics01. A Confederacy of DuncesIn the inaugural episode, Kennedy and Rebecca discuss John Kennedy Toole's comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces.2024-01-181h 10